Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about a way to assist a client in the draining of their servers for the purposes of patching. As it is well documented, the draining process will leave services up and running in a paused state until all active conversations are completed. The issue I’ve ran into a few times however is that I’ve waited over 24 hours and some services (typically the IM MCU) are still up and running. Often times, this is just a random person who left a conference IM window open on their computer but none the less I don’t want to bounce the box if there is a legitimate conference going on.
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